WiLAT Global Report from May to August 2019 (In Chronological order) 1. WiLAT Logo Trademark Application – WiLAT Hong Kong.

WiLAT Hong Kong has re-designed the Chinese logo of WiLAT “蔚 . 木蘭” for registration of

trademark in April to avoid future infringement. Initial approval was received on 3rd June. Registration procedure is expected to complete in September. WiLAT China and Singapore was informed of the registration and logo change prior to its submission. Consent was made to update the WiLAT Chinese logo when the registration is completed. The WiLAT English logo was registered in April in Hong Kong. Other WiLAT territories were encouraged to register locally to avoid infringement in future as WiLAT is receiving prominent awareness in the industry.

2. Revamp of www.wilat.org - WiLAT Hong Kong.

WiLAT Hong Kong have volunteered effort and resources to revamp the WiLAT website since early this year. The new website on WIX platform had been published in April. Additional functions added including event registration and online payment to facilitate event management process. All WiLAT territories were provided with website access instruction to upload their event contents. Materials presented at Global WiLAT meeting in Manchester; message from Dr. Dorothy Chan as WiLAT Global Chairperson & Advisor; and New Formation guideline documents were posted in the website for ease of sharing. Please visit https://www.wilat.org/meet-the-team

CILT International-Pink Marketing audited WiLAT website on 2 May. Its comments and suggestions would be incorporated in the site.

3. WiLAT GBA Carnival 2019 – WiLAT Hong Kong.

WiLAT Signature event was successfully held in Hong Kong on April 13 with 49 participants including 8 from GBA. Prof James Wang and Mr. Bryan Chan delivered great speeches on GBA development to participants. Cooking demonstration by renowned chefs was arranged. Participants mingled well over good food and hands on practice after learning from chefs.

4. Formation of CILT & WiLAT Melaka Chapter On 2 May 2019 – WiLAT Malaysia.

CILT Malaysia President / International President Elect Dato Ts Radzak, Ts Hjh Zawiah Abdul Majid

Chairperson of WiLAT Malaysia and Ts Hj Mohd Nasir, Council Member CILTM, Secretariat Pn. Salwa,

Chairperson Melaka Chapter Mr. Suren.

5. Industry Talk on 5 May 2019 - WiLAT Malaysia.

CILTM Terengganu Section AGM, Industry Talk by CILT Malaysia President and

International President Elect, Dato Ts Abd Radzak Abd Malek and Wilat Presentation by Ts Zawiah

Abdul Majid done concurrently. We also visited MaLTrac and UMT Alumni Centre and being briefed

by Dr Rosni, Director and Chairman CILTM Terengganu.

6. Meeting with UniKL International office on 9 May 2019 – WiLAT Malaysia.

Both parties interested to set up collaboration in the area of internship, students exchange

and foreign students’ admission. CILT Malaysia will be the active partner to UniKL in realizing

this great project. Puan Zuraina, En Nazri and Alin from UniKL International University Office

visited CILT Malaysia. Had a fruitful meeting. Ts Zawiah Abdul Majid pinned Pn Zuraina to

officially granted her Member of WiLAT Malaysia and Nazri as friend of WilAT. Alin is

Secretary of WiLAT Malaysia. CILT Malaysia President and International President Elect,

Dato Ts Abd Radzak Abd Malek chaired the meeting and exchange of memento.

7. PQE Transport & Logistics on 16 May 2019.

WiLAT Malaysia Chairperson joined the Curriculum Review Committee on PQE Transport &

Logistics organised by CRC Chairman Prof. K Followed by IFTAR with Dato Ts. Radzak,

Council Member and WiLAT Malaysia Committee Madam Reshma and more.

8. Logistics Day event at Unikl MIAT Subang – WiLAT Malaysia on 16 May 2019.

The undergraduates displayed great teamwork leadership and organisational skills in

putting up/managing the event.

Congratulations program director Roy Effie and committee. Mira for the awesome video.

Madam Alin WiLAT secretary. Their Lecturer Ts Zawiah who is also the current

WiLAT Malaysia chairperson & WiLAT Global South East Asia chairperson, with strong

support from Prof. Dato Hj. Ahmad Zahir , Prof. Khairudin Chairman of the exams board and

curriculum review committee. Thank you to CILT International president-elect Dato Ts

Radzak who on duty in London.

9. On 23 May 2019, the WiLAT Malaysia have welcoming Visitor from Kazakthan to UniKL MIAT

Interested about Bachelor in Aviation Management (BAVM Program Accredited by CILT),

Introductory of CILT & WiLAT Malaysia activities by Ts hjh Zawiah (Senior Lecturer UniKL

MIAT & WiLAT Malaysia Chairperson / WiLAT Global- South East Asia Vice Chairperson,

accompanied by Pn.Balqis & En. Halim Bujang.

10. WiLAT Founding Chairperson/ Advisor Gayani de Alwis was appointed to the Women

Directors Forum (WDF) Member of SL institute of Directors (SLID) on 3 June 2019.

11. GBA Series by WiLAT HK – Entrepreneurship – WilAT Hong Kong.

Mr. Albert Su, Chief Executive of Tung Wah Group of Hospitals was invited to give a talk about

“Women Employment Status in Social Enterprises” on 3rd June 2019. It was encouraging to

learn about the creativities of women of entrepreneurs in establishing social enterprises and

created employments for the community.

12. WiLAT Sri Lanka – Strategic Workshop 2019/ Environmental Day Celebration on 8 June 2019. Event relates directly to WiLAT since it created a platform for WiLAT Exco to plan and identify how to proceed their journey for the upcoming year. The session helped the Exco to identify areas where they could use improvements and to think beyond form areas where they have completed well in past years. Coupling the session with environmental day celebration has given a valuable image to WiLAT in mindsets of participants as well as on media publications; since being aware about the impact on environment from anything and everything WiLAT do, is something that is highly important in current context. The workshop started with a short awareness and knowledge sharing session conducted by renowned environmentalist Dr. Ajantha Perera, in recognition of the World Environment Day celebrated on 5th June and the World Ocean Day celebrated on 8th June. Dr Ajantha shared her experience as an environmentalist and delivered her speech in an inspiring note which made the audience to rethink about the valuable natural resources which are being consumed each day but often being forgotten by humans, to be thankful for or to try to preserve.

It was stressed out in her speech, the fact that humans should start to take the responsibility of their actions and work towards reduce environmental pollution soon as possible. Her presentation then was mainly focused on the theme air pollution, following the theme of World Environment Day 2019 – “Beat the Air Pollution”. It was highlighted that sustainability must be the underlying theme of all the operations carried out in logistics and transport industry as well as the basis of any strategy CILT or WiLAT adhering to. After a brief networking session between Dr Ajantha and the executive committee members, further proceedings of the workshop started. After sharing thoughts about successes and failures or weaknesses of WiLAT in the past year, as seen in committee members eyes, strategic teams for the upcoming year under main 3 pillars of Membership Development, Membership Services and Branding & Sponsorship were formed. Three teams developed strategies separately after brainstorming sessions and finally all plans were discussed among the whole executive committee and final decisions were taken. Workshop was concluded successfully with plans to finalize the strategy and action plans within a weeks’ time after adding final touches and improvements to the sketch that has been drawn.

13. CILT International Centenary Convention – WiLAT India. The WiLAT global council meeting was held on the 16th June 2019 at 4.30 pm in the Fairclough Room, Midland Hotel. The primary objective of the Global council was to facilitate exchange amought Territorial WILATs and for the WILAT steering committee to report back on global activities and to such endorsement on future plan.

14. Manchester ICM 16 - 18th June.

WiLAT China and Hong Kong strongly supported the centennial convention with a high number of attendances. Dr. Dorothy Chan has been appointed to take the Global Chair as Aisha stepped down from her Global Convenor role. A WiLAT sharing session was held at the main conference on 16th. Following on the public session was the WiLAT Global Council

Dr Ajantha Perea

(WGC) meeting where all GVC gave a 3minutes report of their region. East Asia Regional report was delivered, and its content can be found in the website. https://www.wilat.org/wilat-regional-reports-2019

15. WiLAT Nigeria and Ghana participated in the CILT Annual Convention held from 16-18 June

2019 in Manchester, UK. It was the Centenary Celebration which included a Public session for WiLAT and WiLAT Global Council meeting.

Madam Aisha, the former WiLAT Nigeria Chairperson was the “Toast” at the President’s Formal Dinner where she was honored with the highest award in CILT, the Pegasus Award for her exemplary effort in the formation of WiLAT and service to CILT in general.

16. Tree plantation for a greener environment (CSR Activity) – WiLAT Pakistan, 19 June 2019

17. WiLAT Anniversary Celebration on 22 June 2019 – WiLAT Malaysia.

A cheerful and fascinating WiLAT anniversary celebration on at SACC Shah Alam.

18. WiLAT Founding Chairperson/ Advisor Gayani de Alwis was invited for the workshop on

AmCham modern workplace: Empowering the female workplace on 25th June.

19. Singapore IES Delegation to HK & China – WiLAT Singapore.

WiLAT Singapore collaborated with WiLAT Hong Kong to organize a technical tour for Singapore IES engineers to visit the outstanding transport architectures in Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Guizhou, Guiyang and Shenzhen. It was an eight days tour from June 25 to July 3; accompanied by our WiLAT Ambassor Stefan Sim. Carmen Li of WiLAT HK Vice Chairperson & WSC GVC East Asia gave a speech on “Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong High-speed Train; Greater Bay Area Transport”. She has guided the delegates to tour the Integrated cross-boarder checkpoint in the HSR terminal in Hong Kong. The delegates appreciated the effort of WiLAT to put this challenging program for them and the earnest support provided to facilitate the success of the tour.

20. WiLAT Nigeria held its elections in July 2019 to elect new executives to steer the affairs of

the Association. The new Executives had Folake George, CMILT as Chairperson.

21. Way Forward – International Connection.

Global WiLAT Southeast Asia Vice-Chairperson & WiLAT Malaysia Secretary activities - ISEM,

UniKL in South Korea on 30 June and 7 July 2019.

22. WiLAT Ghana Executives met in July 2019 to review their programme line up for the rest of

the year. Secondly, Ms. Mary Hansen has been appointed as Assistant Secretary per WiLAT

Ghana constitution to assistant in the Administration of the Association.

23. Reducing road congestion through carpooling – WiLAT Pakistan, on 7 July 2019.

A team has been formed to devise methods for carpooling with the objective of reducing the number of vehicles on the road through provision of easy access to transport services, reduction in travel costs, savings on fuel, promoting low-carbon lifestyles, reduction in congestion and pollution – both huge problems in Pakistan.

24. WiLAT Sri Lanka Founding Chairperson/ Advisor Gayani de Alwis met with Prof Ryoo of

University Maritime and Ocean Studies of South Korea on 8th July to discuss the plans of

setting up WiLAT in South Korea in September.

25. Oxfam officials met with Founding Chairperson of WiLAT Sri Lanka on 11 July 2019 to discuss

plans to collaborate with WiLAT on their campaign on bystander intervention during sexual

harassment in public transport.

26. Round Table Meeting for Freight Forwarders on 13 July 2019– WiLAT India.

The objective of this meeting was to understand the issues that are important for the community of freight forwarders and thereafter discuss the possible solution to address them. Thereafter we could work on a possible digital freight forwarding platform which could support the community.

27. WiLAT members in Pakistan have visited the research and design thesis of young SZABIST

students on 15 July 2019. This was as under:

- Guide and comedy commentary for girls preparing for marriage. (Motivation)

- Social commentary on environment and environmental (CSR)

- Eco friendly textile and fashion brand. (CSR)

- Teenager’s guide to effective communication with parents with commentary on the

social norms of women. (Empowerment)

- Match boxes designed with slogans empowering women and being sold in the market.

(Entrepreneurship and Empowerment)

- Eco friendly food brand that provides healthy options for young adults(CSR)

- Graphic novel on how nature is fighting pollution created by human (CSR)

28. Tree plantation for a greener environment (CSR Activity) – WiLAT Pakistan, 16 July 2019.

29. WiLAT Sri Lanka coordinated with CILT Chairperson and organized a Road Show at

University of Sri Jayawardanapura to promote membership on 17 July 2019.

30. WiLAT Sri Lanka Founding Chairperson/ Advisor Gayani de Alwis moderated the session on

“Beyond corporate strategy towards sustainable business” organized by CSR Lanka on 18

July 2019.

31. WiLAT Sri Lanka Founding Chairperson/ Advisor Gayani de Alwis was invited for the

Emerging careers for the future by NHRDC on 18 July 2019.

32. WiLAT Sri Lanka was an associate partner at the WIM Top 50 conference on 25 July 2019

where founding Chairperson/ Advisor WiLAT Gayani de Alwis was a Session Chair

moderating the session on “Fighting the System”.

33. The 2019 WiLAT Nigeria Day was held in Abuja on the 25-26 July 2019 and Chana was

presented by WiLAT Ghana Chairperson, who also gave a report on the activities of the

Northern Sector.

WiLAT Nigeria donated ten wheelchairs to the ten physically challenged women at the 2019

WiLAT Nigeria Day as part of their corporate Social Responsibility.

34. 1ST Council Meeting with new President, Kelab Shah Alam, Selangor, and Management

Council on 27 July 2019 – WiLAT Malaysia.

35. WiLAT Malaysia joined the International President Elect to PoliTeknik Nilai Open day 28 July

2019.

36. On 31 July 2019, the WiLAT India review on International Conference on 21-22 Nov 2019 at

Delhi, India and add “WiLAT Session” with these points:

a. Need for gender-sensitization in industry b. Initiatives & challenges in making the sector female friendly c. Advocacy for women-oriented policies

37. 3rd GROSTLog 2019 – WiLAT Malaysia, held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 1-3 August 2019.

38. WiLAT Malaysia Courtesy Visit to Malaysian Industry - Government Group for High

Technology (MIGHT) on 5th August 2019 – Cyberjaya, Selangor.

39. WiLAT Malaysia & Women in Corporate Aviation Asia (WCAA) networking & collaboration

at UniKL MIAT in August of 2019.

40. GBA Series - New Era Transport - WiLAT Hong Kong.

Ms Isabel Fan, Regional Director, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of Tesla has kindly hosted a WiLAT visit on at their Hong Kong Service Center on 8th August. Isabel introduced the concept and development of Electric Vehicle (EV); and hurdles of wider adoption under the current legislation in Hong Kong and China. Self-driving capability was discussed. More than 30 WiLAT / CILT members attended the visit and appreciated the candid discussion with the Tesla team.

Following this afternoon visit was a dinner talk by Ms. Rosana Wong, Executive Director of Yau Lee Group. Rosana has devoted her passion and resources to build and introduce Autonomous Vehicle (AV) for use in Hong Kong. A brief recap of AV evolution and its development outlook was given. Rosana previewed her visionary project of building a smart city for a population of one million. With her experience in construction, a project plan has been drawn to put the development in action. Driverless vehicles for airport operations was also mentioned.

41. WiLAT Malaysia activities - Welcoming NIRT at UniKL MIAT on 22 August 2019.

42. 6th China Conference in Shijiazhuang on 16-18 October 2019 – WiLAT China. WiLAT China is supporting CILT China to organize the annual conference in full force. Mr. Yuan Tongli, Executive Vice Governor of Hebei Province; and Vice Mayor of Shijiazhuang along with CILT / WiLAT China delegation introduced the conference in person at the CILT ICM Manchester. Invitations were distributed during the CILT President dinner. They have generously confirmed sponsorship of 20 WiLAT nominated Chairpersons and WSC members to attend the conference including air fare and travel cost. A WiLAT session will be held in the evening of 17th October. Exhibitions of sustainable logistics products and technical visits were arranged for participants. High Speed Rail travel arrangement will be organized from Hong Kong directly to Shijiazhuang. Others shall be flying to Beijing or to SJW airport for transfer to the Hilton Hotel in Shijiazhuang.

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